[ale] Crontab on ESXi

[Edward Holcroft]

Thanks for getting me on the right track folks.

It looks like ESXi needs the day specified as MON,TUE,WED etc.

ed





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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

> On 05/31/2016 08:22 AM, Edward Holcroft wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a crontab entry on EXI v6:
> >
> > 0    1    *   *   7   /sbin/sh
> > /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f
> > /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/util/ghettoVCB-master/vms_to_backup
> >
> > I expect the command to run once a week on a Sunday, but it runs every
> > day. The syntax seems correct. Any ideas what may be going on here?
>
> Is there any chance ESXi doesn't conform to 7 = Sunday?  Have you tried
> "0 1 * * 0" ?
>
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